Editor’s word: On the finish of 2025, we’re wanting again on the tales that formed San Antonio this 12 months. In our Metropolis Life part, readers have been most eager about how native faculties, universities, and hospitals stacked up towards the remainder of the nation. We additionally realized the place the very best suburbs are located and which corporations are nice locations to work.
Listed below are San Antonio’s high 10 metropolis life tales of 2025.
1. U.S. Information ranks 2 San Antonio excessive faculties amongst America’s finest in 2025. Foundation San Antonio’s Shavano Campus and Younger Ladies’s Management Academy have been the 2 native faculties that made the highest 100 finest excessive faculties within the nation.
2. San Antonio suburb surges amongst finest locations to reside in United States. None apart from New Braunfels was hailed for its Hill Nation location, small-town allure, a wealth of leisure choices, and extra.
3. 3 San Antonio hospitals climb chart amongst finest in Texas, per U.S. Information. Methodist Hospital, Baptist Medical Heart, and Methodist Hospital Stone Oak are retaining San Antonio in good palms (and in good well being).
4. San Antonio’s groundbreaking land bridge wins high architectural award. San Antonio’s Phil Hardberger Park spent a while within the nationwide highlight in September after profitable a prestigious ASLA Honor Award from the American Society of Panorama Architects.
The land bridge at San Antonio’s Phil Hardberger Park acquired a high nationwide honor. Picture by Justin Moore/ Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy
5. San Antonio tumbles in new rating of America’s finest cities. Although San Antonio ranked 9 spots decrease from its 2024 rating, the report nonetheless praised the town’s “tactical urbanism.”
6. H-E-B household ranks amongst richest billionaires in America, per Forbes. Charles Butt is the one hundred and twentieth wealthiest particular person within the U.S. and the eleventh richest Texan, and his sister, Eleanor Butt Criminal, is the thirty eighth richest Texan and ties nationally for the No. 352 richest American, the most recent Forbes 400 reported.
7. 2 San Antonio corporations have the very best company cultures, says Forbes. The publication praised the top-tier company enviornments at beloved grocery chain H-E-B and municipal electrical utility firm CPS Power.
8. These are San Antonio’s 5 most secure suburbs for 2025, new report says. Schertz, Boerne, New Braunfels, Floresville, and Seguin unlocked coveted spots in SmartAsset’s annual rating, which analyzed 360 U.S. cities total.
9. Cherished San Antonio nursery closing to bloom into nature retreat. There’s nonetheless time to fill up on orchids and shade timber at beloved Shades of Inexperienced earlier than it shutters on December 31. However no want to worry, the homeowners are reworking the enterprise right into a nature sanctuary so locals can benefit from the land for generations to come back.
10. 2 San Antonio universities land on new Forbes checklist of America’s high schools. The 2 native establishments – Trinity College and the College of Texas at San Antonio – have been acknowledged amongst 500 schools and universities that “produce profitable, high-earning and influential graduates from all financial backgrounds, with much less scholar debt.”
